Bandage.



N5. 834.723. PATENTED 001.30, 1906. W. I. HADDBN.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

Application filed October 5, 1905. Serial No. 281.463.

170 all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, WALTER INNES HAD- DEN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Nottingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bandages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bandages, more particularly of the kind used for protecting as well as afiording support to horses legs when they are steeplechasing or being trained for jumping.

In such cases it is customary to use bandages paddedwith cotton-Wool or the like or cotton-wool in combination with an ordinary bandage, so as to provide an elastic padding between the bandage and the limb, and thus prevent the edge of the bandage from cutting It is, however, very diflicult to pad the bandage or apply cotton-wool in an even manner, and such padding is also readily displaced. Bandages made according to this invention are comprised of a tubular knitted fabric with a fleecy pile for part of its length to act as an elastic pad, the pile being produced by introducing a pile thread or threads at the requisite points in the process of manufacture and subsequently brushing the said thread or threads into a fleecy pile.

The part with a fleecy pile when applied forms an elastic pad eminently fitted for the purpose described, and as it comprises an in tegral art of the bandage it cannot be acci-. dental y displaced. The fleecy pile has also great moisture-retaining properties, and a bandage with said pile is very effective for use as a wet bandage.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing a bandage made according to my invention, and Figs. 2 and 3 cross-sections of the parts 0 and B, respectively, of Fig. 1.

In making a bandage a short length A (see Fig. 1) of ordinary plain work may be first knitted, then the pile thread or threads are introduced, and a part B containing said pile threads is made of any suitable length, followed, say, by a corresponding length C of ordinary plain work. The pile-threads in the part B are then brushed into the fleecy pile shown.

In applying the bandage the short length A of ordinary thickness is first passed round the limb and assists in starting to put on the bandage. The fleecy pile part'B then follows and forms the elastic pad, and the long length C of ordinary thickness is wound over the part B, so as to compress it firmly on the limb.

Bandages such as described are made on a circular stockinet frame of the requisite diameter, provided with bearded needles, and the process of sinking, dividing the loops, and pressing ofi is performed by .wheels of wellnown construction. The pile thread or threads are introduced by employing one or more additional threadguides and corresponding loop wheel or wheels in a wellknown manner.

The pile thread or threads are alternately cut out and inserted at the requisite 'oints in the length of the fabric as the wor proceeds.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A horse-bandage composed for part of its length of seamless tubular plain-knit fabric and the remainder of seamless tubularknit fleecy-pile fabric and the latter being of sufficient length to wind on the limb and form an elastic and moisture-retaining pad between the limb and the plain part substantially as described.

2. A horse-bandage composed of end portions of seamless tubular plain-knit fabric and an intermediate portion B of seamless tubular-knit fleecy-pile fabric of sufiicient length to wind on the limb and form an elastic and moisture-retaining pad between the limb and the plain part substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER IN NES HADDEN.

Witnesses:

J. B. JAMSON, B. R. HALL. 

